Hadi has sullied the good name of Malaysia in international society, and he should prove that the Federal Government and five State Governments are promoting Islamophobia, or he should recant, admit his mistakes and retract his allegation that the DAP is promoting Islamophobia

PAS President Hadi Awang has sullied the good name of Malaysia in international society, and he should prove that the Federal Government and five State Governments are promoting Islamophobia, or he should recant, admit his mistakes and retract his allegation that the DAP is promoting Islamophobia.

DAP has four Federal Ministers, 40 Members of Parliament, a state Chief Minister, a state Deputy Chief Minister, 14 State Executive Councillors, and 91 state Assembly persons. It is part of the Federal Government and five State Governments.

There should be no over-reaction to Hadi’s allegation that the DAP is promoting Islamophobia but there should be no under-reaction either.

As former Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Middle East to two “backdoor” Prime Ministers, drawing RM60,000 a month, Hadi should be aware that the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) has an Islamophobia Observatory monitoring Islamophobia on a global and daily basis.

From the annual reports of the OIC Islamophobia Observatory on Islamophobia since 2007, there is no Islamophobia in Malaysia.

Hadi has been terribly remiss in his former duties as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Middle East in not reporting Islamophobia in Malaysia to the OIC Islamophobia Observatory.

He should now report to the OIC Islamophobia Observatory instances of Islamophobia in Malaysia together with evidence to substantiate the allegations, or he should stop sullying the good name of Malaysia in international society, recant by admitting his mistake and retract all his allegations about the DAP promoting Islamophobia.

DAP has never promoted Islamophobia as we want Malaysia to leverage on the values and virtues of the great religions which meet in confluence in Malaysia to produce a world-class Malaysian nation which can be, in the words of Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman, “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

If Hadi cannot substantiate his preposterous allegations that the DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist, and promoting Islamophobia, and is not prepared to recant and retract his allegations, he is no more than an irresponsible and immoral political leader who is prepared to make all sorts of preposterous allegations to sully the good name of Malaysia to serve his own political ends.